Answer to Question #224209 in English for anna

Question

In your own opinion, in what way do you think music plays a great role in globalization and how does music connect to different aspects of life like with politics, sports, celebrities or other world phenomenon?

Answer 1

Many songs have the capability to help identify a culture, as well as educate countries about other cultures. Music has a way of inducing feelings, awakening old memories, and producing new ones. It can be used for entertainment, communication, and inspiration.

As such, «world music» engenders the concept of hybridization, which reflects levels of attainment in various aspects of human life in a global reality. In the field of technology, one observes creative efforts beinge endorsed by manufacturers of computer-generated

music leading, to such products as the chiptunes, referring to music composed for the microchip based

audio hardware of early home computers and gaming

consoles. These manufacturers visualize the world is

divided into zones a, b, c, etc., and the music being

played in zone d, can be heard also in zone z, without

traveling. In spite of this rather high tech attempt,

which is globalizing sounds of musical instruments of

the world, there are still aspects of certain musical elements that will resist being globalized in this process,

and absorbed into this form of high tech. This is due

to the fact that the identity of instruments is culturally

defined, i.e., every instrument is identified with of its

musical zone, in which it fulfills a specific cultural

function and it is an integral part of the essence of

musical style pertaining to a given geographic space

and people.